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Have slept for almost 12 hours; am definitely the better for it. Have excavated my copy of The Breakfast Club as background for a Marauders-era fic, so there's that.

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ETA: omg squee um, do we have an exact year for this event? I can haz punk?

Hrrm; I want it to be seventh year (the kids are going to be actively contemplating their own adulthood, as well as their imminent Order of the Phoenix/Death Eaterdom, which I'm hoping will give the story most of its dramatic tension)(See what happens when you become an adult?); given the HP lexicon date for James' birth, that makes it 1978. I could definitely be persuaded to 1977, though (Clash album release! James and the boys might not listen to Muggle music; Lily is definitely a princess for the parents, a punk on the streets, and she would).

Lipstick reference, yes; also, Sirius wants to be suggestively licking envelopes, which more than one member of the group (Sirius = rebel; James = athlete; Remus = brain; Lily = punk/princess; Snape = Ally Sheedyesque) will be pretending not to stare at.

I'd actually been thinking of the first Cure album, but apparently "Boys Don't Cry" didn't single until 1979. I can TOTALLY SEE Lily playing it for Snape and not really realizing just how horrible a thing it would be, and yet so horribly appropriate.

...envelopes? What on earth is he doing with envelopes? Just lick your wand already, Sirius.

Wrong things: Lily filks. "Livin' it up at the Hogwarts School for Wizards, da da da da da, you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave..."

Lily's '77 mix tape:

Hotel California for the above reasons
Heroes, Bowie
God Save The Queen, Sex Pistols
In the City, The Jam
London's Burning, White Riot and Career Opportunities - The Clash

probably some early ABBA although she may not admit that to the boys
Juke Box Music, The Kinks
The first Damned album

Also, I suspect she's tone deaf and sings anyway. James pretends it's charming. Many of the others hate it.

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